Improvement in child s-carriage handle-sockets



McLAU'GHLIN.

' CHILDS CARRIAGE HANDLE-SOCKET.

No."171,153. Patented Dec.14,1875.

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VNITED STATES PATENT Orrrcn ARTHUR-MGLAUGHLIN, OF CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT ll\l CHILDS-CARRIAGE HANDLE-SOCKETS Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 171,153, dated December 14, 1875 application filed March 30, 1875.

To all whom itmay concern.-

Be it known that I, ARTHUR MCLAUGHLIN, of Cambridge, in the county of Middlesex, State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and usefulImprovement in Handle- Socket-Irons for Childrens Carriages, of which the following is a description sutliciently full, clear, and exact to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is an isometrical perspective view of the iron detached; and Fig. 2, a similar view, showing the iron in use.

Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different figures of the draw My invention relates more especially to that class of childrens carriages which are designed to be trundled and consists in a handle-socket iron of novel construction, by which a simpler and more effective device of this character is produced than is now in ordinary use.

In some carriages of this character it is usual to attach the handle-socket directly to the back of the carriage, which, not having ien t] y removed.

My invention is designed to obviate these difficulties and objections; and to that end I preferably cast the handle-socket, spring-jack, and the bracket by which they are attached to the carriage,'integral, or in one piece, although they may be made separately, and afterward united, if preferred, all as fully represented in Fig. 1 ofthe drawing, in which A is the bracket, 13 the spring-jack, and E the handle-socket. screw-holes (Z, for securing the same to the carriage, the jack being curved, and provided with like holes 0, for attaching the end of the spring a; thereto.

In the use of my improved socket the bracket A is secured to the under side of the body m, as shown in Fig. 2, or in such a manner that the handles 2 are disposed Well to the rear, rendering it much easier to tilt and manage the carriage than when the handles are connected directly to the body, as is frequently done.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim isl. The handle-socket consisting of the parts A E B, combined to operate substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. In a childs carriage the socket E, bracket A, and jack B, to operate in combination with the body m, spring as, and handles 2, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

ARTHUR McLAUeHLIN.

Witnesses:

H. E. METOALF, GEO. G. SHAW.

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